Intel's
current generation of
Xeon processors already represents some of the fastest silicon you can buy, and yet the company's forthcoming
Nehalem-Ex-based Xeons are being touted as the single greatest generational jump in its history. To achieve that, Intel has strapped
eight cores into each CPU, with a pair of threads per core and 24MB of shared cache, along with integrated quad-channel memory controllers,
Turbo Boost, and the pretty awesome ability to scale up to eight sockets -- meaning you could have 64 processing cores in the same rig. Don't even ask whether these chips can run
Crysis 2, they'll probably be showing up in the machines that are
making the game... and maybe yours, provided you have the cash to splash later this month.
